International capital mobility is today a concern that breeds broader social uncertainty because of unprecedented degrees of financial social- isation. Financial markets now attract a greater volume of savings than at any previous time in their history. Existing living standards are there- fore increasingly dependent upon the market environment continuing to function in the manner prescribed by…
Security and privacy issues have risen in importance as the use of technology increases. Newly devel- oped technological devices for asset security can only be successful if people are willing to use them. Gaining an understanding of individuals’ acceptance and possible use of new security technologies would be beneficial to entities that are developing, marketing, and implementing new securi…
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) may consist of many interconnected components. As a result of this, the Oracle SOA Suite is a large piece of software that initially seems to be overwhelmingly complex. In this chapter, we will provide a roadmap for your understanding of the SOA Suite and provide a reference architecture to help you understand how to apply SOA principles with the SOA Suite. A…
Oracle ADF is a powerful Java application framework for building next generation enterprise applications. Oracle ADF in combination with JDeveloper IDE offers visual and declarative approaches to enterprise application development. This book will teach you to build scalable, rich enterprise applications by using the ADF Framework, with the help of many real world examples. This book discusses…
The papers in this volume are collected from speakers at a forum held on Capitol Hill entitled Broadband Technology Forum: The Future Of The Internet In The Broadband Age.1 All of the speakers are active in the public policy debates, regulatory proceedings and court cases that have been defining the contours of the next generation of the Internet. The purpose of the forum was to engage staffe…
South Asia comprises the states of Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Bhutan, Pakistan, Nepal and Afghanistan. It is an area of enormous opportunity, staggering diversity but also pervasive poverty and instability. Home to 1.64 billion people – roughly 24 per cent of the world’s population – South Asia is an important and emerging market that has averaged an impressive rate of re…
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy has been an important analytical and qualitative tool in chemistry, material science, and organic geochemistry for quite some time, and now is becoming recognized as a valuable tool in environmental science and technology. Because it is a non- destructive and element-specific probe, it is useful for examining a myriad of environmental reactions occu…
Most web applications are changed and adapted frequently and quickly. Their envi- ronment, for example the size and the behaviour of the user base, are constantly chang- ing. What was sufficient yesterday can be insufficient today. Especially in a web envi- ronment it is important to monitor and continuously improve the software quality not only when developing, but also when maintaining the so…
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, or simply SharePoint, is the new buzzword around Microsoft software. I first used SharePoint some years back simply to store documents and access them from home via the Web. Over time, I came to realize that this software offered an opportunity to totally change the way I work with documents in that it blurred the distinction between the local PC and the Inte…
The idea that government can manage itself strategically, in a similar manner to well-performing private sector organisations, has featured prominently in New Zealand’s contributions to PUMA work since 1994. The purpose of this paper is to outline the rationale for a strategic approach to government management, to describe the elements of the approach which we have developed, to assess its im…
Pick up any of the many PHP/MySQL books in any large bookstore and you’ll find chapters on installing PHP, variables, statements, functions, string processing, arrays, objects, file handling, debugging, and, probably, a toy e-commerce site. Not this book! I assume you already know all that stuff, or can find it somewhere if you don’t. Instead, I tried to cover essential topics that I’ve n…
Plug-ins allow third-party developers to add additional functionality to software applications and frameworks. Plug-ins exist for many different types of applications, such Mozilla Firefox (Add-ons and Extensions), Microsoft Word (Add-Ins), and development frameworks such as Salesforce.com. As Oracle Application Express (APEX) has been growing, so have the requests from the APEX community for …
Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 is a business management solution that helps simplify and streamline highly specialized business processes such as finance, manufacturing, customer relationship management, supply chains, analytics, and electronic commerce for small and medium-sized enterprises. ERP systems like NAV thus become the center of a company's day- to-day operations. When you learn to progr…
This book presents a critical view of the current state of commercial mass media in America. It examines the media through the lens of the public policy debates about limits on the number and type of media outlets that a single firm can own. The focal point is the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) policy that prevents a television station from owning or being owned by a newspaper in …
Our approach in this book will be to use statistics and social science theory to mine social media and we'll use R as our base programming language. We will walk you through many important and recent developments in the field of social media. We'll cover advanced topics such as Open Authorization (OAuth), Twitter's OAuth API, Facebook's graph API, and so on, along with some interesting referenc…
True to its title, this book itself is an excellent financial investment. For the price of one volume it teaches two Nobel Prize winning theories, with plenty more included for good measure. How many undergraduate mathematics textbooks can boast such a claim? Building on mathematical models of bond and stock prices, these two theories lead in different directions: Black–Scholes arbitrage…
In the five years since the first edition of this classic book was published, Internet use has exploded. The commercial world has rushed headlong into doing business on the Web, often without integrating sound security technologies and policies into their products and methods. The security risks - and the need to protect both business and personal data - have never been greater. We've updated B…